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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Thursday Taster 17: Parralel slip

Hello and Welcome to Thursday Taster again. Talented writers from all over the blogosphere gather together to give
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Today, we continue with Parallel Slip just where we left it. Frederique just thanked the girls.

It
was apparently unexpected. I really wondered who I was and how I had
become captain.

I
took my seat, the document in front of me were written in a language I
couldn't read. That was one thing that I never understood. I could
speak and be understood and they could understand me, but for the rest
I often had no idea. What kind of choice had lead humanity to that
kind of universe?

I
took the paper and tried to order them. I was still here, something
more had to happen.

"Captain,
on the right, they are attacking us," one of the woman said.

I
knew I could do something from this seat, I just didn't know what
button to press. I was here to save the day, but I couldn't control
a spaceship and I had no idea about the weapons. I was just in charge of
something I couldn't take care of. I wished that the other me would
decided to come back and fix it, but apparently that wasn't her
intention.

"Captain,
let's do it," that was the man I had put in charge.

I
wanted to smile of relief to see him, but I wasn't too sure anymore.
I kicked my chair away from the desk to give him space. A gesture
that he didn't seem to be waiting for. I slide my hand over the
control panel.

"You're
in charge."

He
turned around the table under the bemused eyes of the two women.

"Captain,
are you sure?"

"I've
never been so sure," I said.

He
took a deep breath and pushed one button, pulled on things I had no
idea. I tried to memorize the order.

"I
think you should give the last move," he said.

"This
was your idea, you are in charge, take your responsibility."

He
took another deep breath, looking at the vessel in front of our glass
screen and pushed a red button. That was easy, it was always the red
button. The spaceship shook. He stumbled. I clung at the armrest of
my chair and everything stopped.

"Target
destroyed," one of the woman said. "Mission successful,
ship damage, less than 0.02 percent."

"That's
less than any other defense in the past twenty years," the other
woman exclaimed.

"Captain,"
the crowd was back.

I
stood up trying to show that I was in control when I obviously
wasn't.

"Don't
you ever dare discuss my decision again," I said. Or maybe my
other self said, because I heard that white noise again. I blinked
three times. That's how I make sure that I'm back.

"She
moved," I heard a voice and I was pulled from a long tube.

My
head was painful. It was always painful when I fell and nobody was
here to catch me. I felt a bit disoriented. I was with my mother,
going shopping I had just walked out of the car and my body had
stiffened and I had fallen backward, seeing the sky and my mother had
yelled my name as usual and here we were again, the hospital and
their brain scan. They loved to look at my brain and at the abnormal
activity there after the fall. I could tell my mum a hundred times
that it wasn't necessary, she would always get me there. I sat up.